Electrostatic structure around spacecraft in tenuous plasmas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Cully, C M ^a   Ergun, R E ^a   Eriksson, A I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

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EID: 36148969329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012269     Document Type: Article

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